Identify those that are eligible for a vaccination program and track age specific incidence rates.

Source: R/sim_cohort_vac_cam.R

This function identifies those that are eligible for vaccination programs and tracks their age specific incidence over years since vaccination. It does this by,

  • Produces a data set with year of eligibility as a variable

  • Does this for both the universal and targeted schemes

  • Adds a variables for years since entry to scheme - both universal and targetted

  • Adds a flag for before or after policy change (i.e 2005 switch)

sim_cohort_vac_cam(df, eligib_vector, campaign, policy_change_yr = 2005)

Arguments

df

A dataframe
eligib_vector

Numeric year identifying eligibility.
campaign

A character string identifying the name of the campaign.
policy_change_yr

Numeric year identifying the year of the policy change.

Value

A simulate cohort for a given vaccination program correctly formatted as a retrospective cohort.

Examples